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Gifts go to kids with incarcerated parentsThe Salvation Army wants to make sure those kids get presents, so they’re sending gifts from incarcerated moms and dads to 700 children in … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-09

Chicago woman throws annual Christmas party for kids whose parents are incarceratedShe was one of the first women in Illinois to be sentenced to death row, and after spending almost two decades in prison, she has made it her mission … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-09

A Prison Sentence Impacts ManyThis summer I was a counselor at a camp for children of incarcerated parents, and I found myself continually impressed by the children’ resilience, … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-08

Angel Tree fosters parent-child relationshipsAngel Tree is a special project for children who have parents who are either in the Bell County Jail or in the state or federal prisons. Each year around … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-08

City Council collecting toys for kids of parents in jailRemember that the parents may have made a mistake, but the children didn’t. They should not suffer this Christmas season.” Green and Downard will … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-07

Going beyond the gift at Church of The WayTwenty Jasper County children who have incarcerated parents, and who might not otherwise receive a gift this year, are a part of a new program at the … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-07

Parents 4 Pot Holiday Drive: Supporting Families Effected by Marijuana ProhibitionHe lives with his extended family and survives on Social Security income and his parents are incarcerated. Micaih jumps through daily hoops due to … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-07

‘Drop these ridiculous, fabricated charges’: Parents of Utah man jailed in Venezuela upset by latest …Meanwhile, Caleno’s two kids, ages 5 and 8, have been staying with family while their mother is incarcerated. “My heart is broken,” Laurie Holt wrote … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-06

Louisville Metro Council members collect toys for children of jail inmatesLMPD officers have arrested a man they say wanted to record video of himself … unwrapped toys and money to help children of incarcerated parents. … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-06

Chris Rickert: It’s all in the family for state leaders — as long as the family is straightYou’d think that if the state is going to spend a lot of time on, say, incarcerated spouses and parents, gay people who aren’t criminals would at least get … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-06

Upon arrival, we checked in at the front desk and waited patiently while the guards processed our paperwork. Our names were called, we passed through a metal detector without our shoes, and got a “cool” stamp on our hands before entering the visiting room. In my mind, I thought the stamp was cool because it […]

My grandparents picked me up at my house at seven in the morning. I was eleven. I was really tired but also very happy because I was going to see my dad for the first time in three years. When I was younger they moved him to a prison far away, and we just didn’t […]

My father has been in and out of jail ever since I was a toddler. I remember one time when I was 12 or 13, my dad came home from jail after being gone for a long while. I was extremely nervous because I’d only gotten to see him through glass and all of the […]

I think it is so important for a father to be there when there child is born, to see their child be brought into this world, but mine wasn’t there for me. That really made a dent in my life, knowing he was in a jail cell while I was being born. Before I was […]

I was so excited; I was lying in bed rubbing my feet together. I was up late waiting for Daddy to come home. The next day was my first day of kindergarten, and I knew he would be there to take me to school. I was his baby girl and I was spoiled to death. […]

I was born on July 21st 1999, and I was raised by my grandmother from birth, so I didn’t really know that there was something different about my life. I always knew my grandma was my grandma and not my mom, because I saw my mom off and on since she was in and out […]

It was 3:57 a.m. Where are you, Daddy? I sat up on my queen-size, Care Bear-themed bed, looking down the hallway, listening to the bass rumble the trunks of cars and screeching tires fill the night with danger. Every evening my dad would stretch out on his stomach on my bed and I’d lie […]

My parents have always been the people I admire and look up to for everything. I remember, as a baby girl, cruising around the city in my dad’s bright red ’68 Impala, my sister and I in the back and my mom in the passenger seat with my dad’s arm wrapped around her seat, bumping […]

My father was incarcerated when I was a baby. Trips here and there to a place that looked scary, and was as busy as BART during commute hours. It had tall gates with spikes on them and people standing high with guns. This seemed to always be the place I’d visit with my mom and […]

Gifts go to kids with incarcerated parentsThe Salvation Army wants to make sure those kids get presents, so they’re sending gifts from incarcerated moms and dads to 700 children in … read moreSource: Parents IncarceratedPublished on 2016-12-09Chicago woman throws annual Christmas party for kids whose parents are incarceratedShe was one of the first women in […]